Greetings,
I am doing a print server rebuild to move our printers from a 2003 server to a 2012R2 server. Please keep in mind that this is not technically a migration since we are not porting over drivers. We are replacing all printer drivers with the latest Universal driver for each manufacturer (HP, Konica-Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, etc ...). The print servers will have approximately 1,500 printers on each. For reasons I won't get into they cannot be split up. These print servers handle all printing for a broad use application. Our process for adding these print servers to the application uses a specialized *.exe file that when run does some type of WMI call or other query to get the printertray information and an associated BIN number from the driver/printer, problem is that it can only handle 1 printer at a time and takes several minutes for each one in order to complete. But I don't know how & I am having difficulty coming up with a WMI query that I can run to gather that data, which will then be fed into an SQL database. I'm not worried about the SQL part, someone else will do that. What I need is to be able to gather the tray or paper source information from each printer.
Any assistance appreciated.
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